December 4, 2023

Vicious

NEXT ELECTION = THIS ELECTION

Exaltation of the ruthless *

Trump is anything but toothless

Sharpening his incisor fangs

Planning for his next big harangue

Dehumanized adversaries

Citizens should now be wary

Violence incitement with his spew

Vermin eradicated … YOU

Wanna-be ruler, dictator

Swamp-like creature, alligator

With cruelty, targets his planned kill

Not by his hand, but done with skill

First term was his tutorial

Next term would be historical

He’d end our great democracy

Emboldened, doing as he pleased

He’s wound-up, quite cantankerous

His deeds, reactions … dangerous

Words of Trump’s … toxic emissions

MAGA chaos with munitions

He’d use the military arms

Against our people, causing harm

Start war against the drug cartels

In Mexico, we’d “fight like hell”

Erect some huge detention camps

Against “the other” rave and rant

Kidnap the children … separate

Imprison them with no escape

Vengeance against adversaries

Perceived enemies ... so scary

Judiciary as his tool

He’d rule and rule and rule and rule …

Take away freedoms, protections

Cancel all future elections

Become the richest man on earth

Gazillionaire, he’d fake his worth

Beginning of the horror, end

Upon the laws we’d not depend

World turned upside down … in shambles

America shamed by scandals

Enough of Trump … enough, enough

He needs to be held by the scruff

Stand trial for ALL criminal deeds

Trump’s goal … our freedoms to impede

Inspiration:  NYTimes article entitled:

Why a Second Trump Presidency May Be More Radical Than His First.

Donald Trump has long exhibited authoritarian impulses, but his policy operation is now more sophisticated, and the buffers to check him are weaker.

By Charlie Savage, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, December 4, 2023.

  • Quote from the above  captioned article: “When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it,” Donald J. Trump said in an interview with Playboy magazine the year after the massacre. “Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak.”’’  Tiananmen Square massacre put down a protest for democracy in China, 1989.
  • The interview quoted is dated1990.

Collage elements include cover illustrations from The New Yorker and Barry Blitts.